I didn’t know I’d be helping people - that part was the good part,” he said. To date, they have served 460,000 meals in the area. That’s when he was connected to World Central Kitchen, which deploys pop-up food kitchens in disaster areas around the world and is supported by The Fund.
He let a chef at the restaurant know that his food supply was running a little low. Jackson was out of work - and out of power.
He had just started working as a dishwasher and prep cook at a restaurant in New Orleans when the storm hit. And he turned his misfortune after Ida into an opportunity to help others. For Edmond Jackson, 55, it was a lifeline after the hurricane. That donation was recently put toward The Fund’s 2021-22 campaign.Īnother of the organizations supported by The Fund is World Central Kitchen. Over the next several months, cryptocurrency prices rose, and the value of the winning bid jumped to $1.1 million.
He was blown away by the result: The NFT sold for 350 Ether, the cryptocurrency used for the auction, or about half a million dollars. “I thought we might raise a few hundred dollars for a good cause,” Mr. The proceeds were pledged by The New York Times Company to The Fund. Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The Times, spurred a large contribution when a nonfungible token, or NFT, of a column he wrote was auctioned in March. The Neediest Cases Fund is also supporting eight other organizations in its 2021-22 campaign, which recently kicked off. “We don’t look down on anybody because you never know what their situation might be.” “When you’re coming through a line, is it embarrassing? Yeah. So when residents attend food distribution events, she knows what’s it like to be in that line. Jackson was displaced from her home for three months after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Since then, she has been returning to the house where she raised her three children, trying to salvage items like her treasured record collection. Three weeks after the storm hit, an insurance adjuster said most of the walls of her house would have to come down to the studs. When she returned for the first time after the storm subsided, Ms. “We’re here to do a job, it’s not the most glamorous thing in the world, but it has the most pride attached to it.” “We are here to help people make ends meet,” she said. Jackson said it was a relief to get up and go to work. 31, and got started on what they do best: loading trucks with fresh water, ice and food. Jackson and her crew reported back to work on Tuesday, Aug. The storm damaged floors and skylights in Second Harvest’s warehouse, and a downed electrical wire limited one of their truck routes. 29, “We knew what we had to gear up for,” she said. So when the hurricane crashed through the region on Aug. She and her team at Second Harvest had been through a handful of storms in the past year, in addition to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout. But two days after her home was nearly destroyed, it was time to get back to work. Jackson went to stay with family before moving into a hotel, where she and her husband are still living. “Watching your house fall apart around you was amazing to me.” Jackson had never experienced damage to her personal property as she did during Hurricane Ida. But in all her years of serving and helping in times of destruction, Ms.
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